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<span class=large>MICAH</span>
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CHAPTER 2
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The destruction of Israel is lamented—The Lord will gather the remnant of Israel.
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Woe</span> to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds!  when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
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And they <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/2/2a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Covetousness.">covet</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/2/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Isa. 5: 8 (8-9).">fields</a>, and take <i>them</i> by violence; and houses, and take <i>them</i> away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
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Therefore thus saith the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time <i>is</i> evil.
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&#182; In that day shall <i>one</i> take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, <i>and</i> say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed <i>it</i> from me!  turning away he hath divided our fields.
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Therefore thou shalt have none that shall cast a cord by lot in the congregation of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>.
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Prophesy ye not, <i>say they to them that</i> prophesy: they shall not prophesy to them, <i>that</i> they shall not take shame.
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&#182; O <i>thou that art</i> named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> straitened?  <i>are</i> these his doings?  do not my <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/2/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Jacob 2: 8; Hel. 3: 29 (29-30).">words</a> do good to him that walketh uprightly?
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Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/2/8a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB returning.">averse</a> from war.
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The women of my people have ye cast out from their pleasant houses; from their children have ye taken away my <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/2/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="Mosiah 4: 12; D&C 81: 4 (3-4); Moses 1: 39.">glory</a> for ever.
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Arise ye, and depart; for this <i>is</i> not <i>your</i> <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/2/10a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 84: 24.">rest</a>: because it is polluted, it shall destroy <i>you,</i> even with a sore destruction.
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If a man walking in the spirit and <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/2/11a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Priestcraft.">falsehood</a> do lie, <i>saying,</i> I will prophesy unto thee of wine and of strong drink; he shall even be the <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/2/11b" mark="b" type="A" title="Hel. 13: 27.">prophet</a> of this people.
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&#182; I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/2/12a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 33: 6.">gather</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="micah/2/12b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Remnant of.">remnant</a> of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of <sup>c</sup><a href="micah/2/12c" mark="c" type="P" title="HEB the sheepfold.">Bozrah</a>, as the flock in the midst of their fold: they shall make great noise by reason of <i>the multitude of</i> men.
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The breaker is come up before them: they have broken up, and have passed through the gate, and are gone out by it: and their <sup>a</sup><a href="micah/2/13a" mark="a" type="A" title="D&C 38: 21.">king</a> shall pass before them, and the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> on the head of them.
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